The Xbox 360* doesn't use either of the BDFs**, but I doubt it won't change to accomodate one to support games with sharper details, longer storylines, or just more HD E3 trailers.
*I know they are "facts" from an official source that might not be true. Proving them isn't my job or worry now.
**Big Disk Format, a trademark (that I may/may not claim at the USPTO) of game kid.
*Disclaimer: This actually happened to me; remind me not to get another #7 for breakfast.**
**Disclaimer disclaimer: I love their other artery-blockers so much, and have so little hard feelings about said bagel, that I just linked to them with a nice word.
I can picture all the software company execs getting together in small cabals, swapping stories on ways they'd like to fucking kill Bram Cohen. (And Google.)
...is the day when ISO 8879 can be downloaded for free. Granted, OpenSP kicks ass at much of it, but I'd still like to read the standard without paying ~$224, and if Goldfarb is the one in the way of that, he's gonna get smacked soon.
(Or did I miss a PDF somewhere this side of eMule? I've seen none there of 8879 yet...)
I meant that they (the people who want to export PDFs) will call MS Office a "$x00-$x000 piece of crap". Me, I like the smart tags, XML export and stuff of that sort, but a plain Joe Aijuswanamakeacrobats that sees a OOo PDF just wants to export nice PDFs, and would consider something big like Office worthless if it can't. (For now) Office doesn't do it on its own, and I like making a PDF once in a while.
I think it's more like CMEs and flares (both somewhat good) protecting the guys at the ISS from cosmic rays (immensely bad). Cosmic rays, not CMEs, seem to be the problem, and CMEs sweep them away as they pass Earth (think of a flyswatter through a swarm-the flies are swept away, but not totally or permanently).
So I think, anyway. All this flare and CME talk flared up my brainand almost made my head a splode.
...when someone asks how you got the full version of Adobe Acrobat, one can just say, "I didn't. I just used OpenOffice.org to export a PDF. Microsoft Office can't do that without that overpriced Adobe thing, but OOo can."
When they ask how you found that, and then why they are stuck with that $x00-$x000 piece of crap Microsoft calls an office suite, you can look at them and (before answering said questions) smile at them and yourself with pride.
My new compy has OpenOffice.org, and no version of Microsoft Office (save for maybe WordPad, if that counts), for obvious reasons hinted at above.
For VeriSign, IP security is still security. They're hiring people to write these things, who want a weekly check (at the very least).* How does VS coax users to pay the wages for them? Simple: call the code their IP and say the cost (and closed-sourceness) is for the "security" of their IP.
Of course, Bush is fighting a war in Iraq for the "security" of their (and our) people, but let's not sketch that tangent line...
*how fitting, to notice Dice ads for "great $programming_language jobs" above the comment.
Unless he wishes to live in some sort of cardboard box (or gets the rent from Paypal or something) I sincerely hope he's getting some dinero from his work.
It's a lot better than another *vomits* PowerPoint class.
And yet, I'd still not mind it. One USB cameras, printers, flash drives, CD/DVD drives, monitors...anything that can take off the space wasted on internal PCI and non-USB ports is fine by me. I don't like those. I'd not know jack-shit about writing a USB driver, but hey, I can Google for that...
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*I know they are "facts" from an official source that might not be true. Proving them isn't my job or worry now.
**Big Disk Format, a trademark (that I may/may not claim at the USPTO) of game kid.
...buying a Steak Egg and Cheese Bagel, then buying another one in a few months and realizing they added unwanted mayonnaise.* I also hope the W3C, etc. do have upcoming Recommendations/standards/wtf-they-call-'em, they check over them to prevent any errata that could give Microsoft (further) implementation legroom ("IE6 and IE7 reserve white space for [an] empty legend tag. The HTML 4.01 spec does not specify what should happen in this case."). (said HTML 4.01 spec)
*Disclaimer: This actually happened to me; remind me not to get another #7 for breakfast.**
**Disclaimer disclaimer: I love their other artery-blockers so much, and have so little hard feelings about said bagel, that I just linked to them with a nice word.
It's hard to believe any clinical studies when Ali G is involved.
I can picture all the software company execs getting together in small cabals, swapping stories on ways they'd like to fucking kill Bram Cohen. (And Google.)
...in 1280x720 and 1920x1080 screen sizes, and 25Hz, 30Hz and 60Hz frame rates!
It's the standard way of doing things, you know.
...is the day when ISO 8879 can be downloaded for free. Granted, OpenSP kicks ass at much of it, but I'd still like to read the standard without paying ~$224, and if Goldfarb is the one in the way of that, he's gonna get smacked soon.
(Or did I miss a PDF somewhere this side of eMule? I've seen none there of 8879 yet...)
I prefer "We have ignition...and liftoff of those economically taxing employees of ours from Cape Canaveral..."
Somehow I think they and Zipper Interactive are celebrating the (financial) response to SOCOM 3.
Six months and still no recognition of my research? ;)
"What is Microsoft? Do they, like, sell micro stuff?"
...it'll inspire Chris Laurel to work on it again. Fellow makers Dr. Fridger Schrempp and "Toti" have been left largely on their own with the code these days, it seems. It's amazing in any case, and I doubt it'll need any work from Chris for me (or anyone else) to have the new (if at all different) Blue Marble on Celestia.
You mean (s)he'll see Him in court. Revere the Big Boy, foo! ;)
You can keep the trademark, GOD(TM)-dammit.
Just don't claim any patents on the Toyota Prius or porn or anything like that. That'll just make me start roasting meat for that Zeus guy again.
The most-recent-version-only-in-Google-cache part, or the part with the desperate prom date?
(Me, I'm hoping for the desperate-prom-date part of course. My sorry, single ass could use one of those...)
I meant that they (the people who want to export PDFs) will call MS Office a "$x00-$x000 piece of crap". Me, I like the smart tags, XML export and stuff of that sort, but a plain Joe Aijuswanamakeacrobats that sees a OOo PDF just wants to export nice PDFs, and would consider something big like Office worthless if it can't. (For now) Office doesn't do it on its own, and I like making a PDF once in a while.
I think it's more like CMEs and flares (both somewhat good) protecting the guys at the ISS from cosmic rays (immensely bad). Cosmic rays, not CMEs, seem to be the problem, and CMEs sweep them away as they pass Earth (think of a flyswatter through a swarm-the flies are swept away, but not totally or permanently).
So I think, anyway. All this flare and CME talk flared up my brainand almost made my head a splode.
...magnetic fields from flares and CMEs (this "matter" you speak of) deflecting the energy, too. Don't forget that.
You forgot to place the statement in quotes and attribute it to Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Information Technology Minister, Republic of Intarweb.
Just saw the older post.
...when someone asks how you got the full version of Adobe Acrobat, one can just say, "I didn't. I just used OpenOffice.org to export a PDF. Microsoft Office can't do that without that overpriced Adobe thing, but OOo can."
When they ask how you found that, and then why they are stuck with that $x00-$x000 piece of crap Microsoft calls an office suite, you can look at them and (before answering said questions) smile at them and yourself with pride.
My new compy has OpenOffice.org, and no version of Microsoft Office (save for maybe WordPad, if that counts), for obvious reasons hinted at above.
For VeriSign, IP security is still security. They're hiring people to write these things, who want a weekly check (at the very least).* How does VS coax users to pay the wages for them? Simple: call the code their IP and say the cost (and closed-sourceness) is for the "security" of their IP.
Of course, Bush is fighting a war in Iraq for the "security" of their (and our) people, but let's not sketch that tangent line...
*how fitting, to notice Dice ads for "great $programming_language jobs" above the comment.
...ONLY the oceanic ecosystem?
"Oops, I Did It Again" could hurt the ears of foreign spies for months!
Good call, America!
Unless he wishes to live in some sort of cardboard box (or gets the rent from Paypal or something) I sincerely hope he's getting some dinero from his work.
It's a lot better than another *vomits* PowerPoint class.
...One can have USB cameras..., not One USB cameras...
And yet, I'd still not mind it. One USB cameras, printers, flash drives, CD/DVD drives, monitors ...anything that can take off the space wasted on internal PCI and non-USB ports is fine by me. I don't like those. I'd not know jack-shit about writing a USB driver, but hey, I can Google for that...